Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until the tabloids came along, headlines tended to be wordy and dull, with each "bank" of type telling part of the story. Now, most headlines are briefer and more to the point. Nowhere in the U.S. are they as pointed, cynical, impudent or brassily clever as in the Daily News. Sample (on meat prices and inflation...
Unfaithfully Yours often trips over its own snarled plot lines and falls flat. But Rex Harrison gives a sly, buoyant performance in a tough, wordy role. And some of Writer-Director-Producer Sturges' whimsy and brisk dialogue are worth the wait through the dull spots. In a cast heavy with "characters," Edgar Kennedy, Lionel Stander and Rudy Vallee stand out. Vallee is especially good as a stuffed-shirt multimillionaire...
Maybe MGM was only fooling, and really trying to prove that super-swashbuckling is a superb form of screen humor. And yet there are some dreadful little moments, when the actors suddenly become deadpan, straining to get a dull point across. But these scenes are few, and fairly short. When they intrude, just think back a piece and remember D'Artagnan as he points his poinard to the sky and shouts "All for one!" and his comrades raise their rapiers and reply...
...always with Hartz, both the style and the substance were brilliant. But since I'm a little short on space today, let me skip the substance--there's nothing so dull as a synopsis anyway--and talk about Hartz's manner of speaking...
Some of the sights were boring nonsense. Too often, the pictures lacked imagination: a commentator droning from a script; a couple of them chattering aimlessly; dull interviews with men-in-the-street or with friends and neighbors of Tom Dewey...